Hilbert once had a student in mathematics who stopped coming to his lectures, and he was finally told the young man had… — George Polya Copy Share Image
“Good, he did not have enough imagination to become a mathematician. [Upon hearing that one of his students had dropped out to… — David Hilbert Copy Share Image
Thus metaphysics and mathematics are, among all the sciences that belong to reason, those in which imagination has the greatest role. I… — Jean le Rond d'Alembert Copy Share Image
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